Sabrina jalees is a Canadian comedian who is also a lesbian. Sabrina had a very troubling time coming out to her Muslim/pakistani father, and the rest of her very religious family. Jaeels not coming terms with who she really was until college and even then not fully accepting herself till she came out to all of her family.
Early life
Sabrina says she was once homophobic in a way to hide who she really was. She saw it as wrong in terms to hide who she really was. For Sabrina going to school after 9/11 was hard for her, being a Pakistani it was harsh for her with the way people treated people of her ethnic background. this in term making her feel that lying to all her middle school friend stating she called her father “black” and that he had a “jamaican accent” she also often felt as she states in an interview with “moral courage” when she was with her “white friends she wasn't white enough and with she was with her brown friends vice versa.”
Finding who she really was
Sabrina started doing stand up acts in colleges,while working upstate she met a girl whom she started a relationship with. Sabrina often says she led a double life she was out of the closet with her friends and her girlfriend. When she’d be in “montreal's gay …show more content…
Still, it was hard for my parents; they thought the future they’d envisioned for me was lost. They had no reference point for a gay white picket fence.” Coming out to her parent was a gigantic step for jalees but she still felt closeted seeing none of her other family members knew. Sabrina desired that the best way to do it was right them an
Early life
Sabrina says she was once homophobic in a way to hide who she really was. She saw it as wrong in terms to hide who she really was. For Sabrina going to school after 9/11 was hard for her, being a Pakistani it was harsh for her with the way people treated people of her ethnic background. this in term making her feel that lying to all her middle school friend stating she called her father “black” and that he had a “jamaican accent” she also often felt as she states in an interview with “moral courage” when she was with her “white friends she wasn't white enough and with she was with her brown friends vice versa.”
Finding who she really was
Sabrina started doing stand up acts in colleges,while working upstate she met a girl whom she started a relationship with. Sabrina often says she led a double life she was out of the closet with her friends and her girlfriend. When she’d be in “montreal's gay …show more content…
Still, it was hard for my parents; they thought the future they’d envisioned for me was lost. They had no reference point for a gay white picket fence.” Coming out to her parent was a gigantic step for jalees but she still felt closeted seeing none of her other family members knew. Sabrina desired that the best way to do it was right them an